Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Omskaya Oblast Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Omskaya Oblast
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Omskaya Oblast Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Omskaya Oblast
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Omskaya Oblast "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Omskaya Oblast
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Omskaya Oblast blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Omskaya Oblast
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Omskaya Oblast There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Omskaya Oblast Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Omskaya Oblast
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Omskaya Oblast There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Omskaya Oblast
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Omskaya Oblast Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Omskaya Oblast
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Omskaya Oblast "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Omskaya Oblast
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Omskaya Oblast In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Omskaya Oblast
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Omskaya Oblast "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Omskaya Oblast
